Nostalgia...

I started feeling nostalgic this weekend and pulled my chair into the guest bedroom where my Windows computer sits so I could do some work on it. I booted it into Windows 98 to use a PaperPort scanner and also pulled up my ATI Multimedia Center to watch TV. My nostalgia promptly disappeared when I got reminded again one of the reasons why I had moved off Windows in the first place. The ATI application crashed. I had to reinstall it a couple of times to get it working. Once I did, I scanned in the papers I needed to and worked in Word 2000 for only a few minutes before I shuffled back into my office and cranked up my iMac. I finished the “Drive 10” review using it and the dual 1Ghz Power Mac sitting beside it.

To this day, the clarity of the fonts and the brightness of my 17 inch Samsung 760V TFT LCD running Windows XP are excellent. They are honestly better than my flat panel iMac or my Dual 1 GHz Power Mac running a 17 inch Apple Studio LCD. My dual 1.25 MDD Power Mac with its 20 inch Apple Cinema Display is on par with the XP machine, but I don’t use the MDD for anything but video. So, I hunger sometimes to work on the XP machine (Win 98’s fonts are the worst of the bunch). But I remember that during my divorce from my first marriage I’d start rationalizing it wasn’t that bad and would want to go back…until cold reality reminded me of why I left in the first place. It’s the same with my Windows machine. I think I’ll leave it in the guest room where its major purpose in life is to watch TV and play games.